Plants for Sale every Friday!
Don’t forget! Every Friday from 3-6pm we open our garden gates and invite you to enjoy our Pop Up Garden Shop! We’re selling seasonal fruits and vegetables, a great selection of plants, seeds, preserves, eggs (from our own chickens!), mosaic gifts and other garden paraphernalia.
There’s a large range of garden books and magazines in our cosy Garden Room – you are welcome to browse and enjoy a relaxing cup of tea and some delicious homemade cake – and of course ask all your gardening questions!
Come along, we look forward to meeting you…
Location: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT.
Sweet Pea seeds for sale
Our extensive selection of Sweet Pea seeds is available Autumn 2011. Just come along to The Garden House any Friday afternoon from 3pm to 6pm – we’ll be selling seasonal fruits and vegetables, a great selection of plants, seeds, preserves, eggs (from our own chickens!), mosaic gifts and other garden paraphernalia.
We also have a large range of garden books and magazines in our cosy Garden Room – you are welcome to browse and enjoy a relaxing cup of tea and some delicious homemade cake – and of course ask all your gardening questions!
Sweet Pea varieties:
Angela Ann – an attractive almond pink sweet pea on a white back ground – it won the National Sweet Pea Societies Clay Cup in 1993
Beaujolais – a truly beautiful lightly scented flower with large rich deep burgundy maroon colour
Elizabeth Taylor – large, clear mauve flowers with wavy petals, heavily scented
Charlie’s Angel – outstanding blue over lavender, very good for cutting. Large blooms and classic sweet pea fragrance
Geranium Pink – slightly scented salmon-pink blooms
Claire Elizabeth – relatively large scented white flowers that have pink edge picotee and slightly ruffed. Ages to darker shades
Cupani - is the oldest known sweet pea and is thought to have been sent to England in 1699 by Sicilan monk Francisco Cupani. Cupani still bears it’s original characteristics of delicate bicolour blooms and intense perfume. Sometimes known as the Original sweet pea
Diamond Jubilee –pure white flowers in celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee
L. Mattucana – the original sweet pea and quite special
We look forward to seeing you!
Location: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT
Plants for Sale: autumn 2011
We have a large variety of plants for sale – many of them propagated by us! Every Friday from 3-6pm we’ll be opening our garden gates and inviting you to enjoy our Pop Up Garden Shop! We’ll be selling seasonal fruits and vegetables, a great selection of plants, seeds, preserves, eggs (from our own chickens!), mosaic gifts and other garden paraphernalia.
We have many garden books and magazines in our cosy Garden Room – you are welcome to browse and enjoy a relaxing cup of tea and some delicious homemade cake – and of course ask all your gardening questions!
Plants for sale:
Cotoneaster dammeri – valued for their variety of colour and texture all year round. This is a vigorous and spreading variety with arching or prostrate stems that make efficient and attractive ground cover among other taller shrubs, and can also be trained flat against a wall. It produces small, white flowers in late spring or early summer which are followed by masses of red berries appearing in the autumn. It is good for exposed situations and will cope with any aspect and any soil type. The Royal Horticultural Society has given it the Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Sarcococca confusa (sweetbox) – evergreen shrub with small, sweetly-scented flowers in winter. Plant in the ground or in a pot beside your front door so that you catch the scent every time you go in or out.
Vinca difformis – evergreen ground cover and scrambler, with flowers almost all year round, and certainly right through the winter months. The leaves are larger and a lighter green than the ordinary periwinkle (vinca minor). Pretty pinwheel flowers are milky-blue to white depending on the light levels. This obliging plant puts up with shade, poor dry soil, and will scramble up the leggy bits of shrubs. Makes a good cut flower/foliage especially in winter months when flowers to pick are scarce. What’s not to like?
Also for sale:
Buddleia alternifolia, Carex sp., Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Chrysanthemum – various named cultivars, Chrysathemum rubellum ‘Clara Curtis’, Dianthus carthusianorum, Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’, Foxgloves (digitalis) white, Foxgloves (digitalis) apricot, Helianthemum ‘Henfield Brilliant’, Hollyhock ‘Creme de Cassis’, Hydrangea sp., Hydrangea – red flowered, Lavender – pink flowered, Molinia ‘Skyracer’, Myrtus communis ‘Tarentina’ (myrtle), Pelargonium ‘Attar if Roses’ – scented leaf, Pelargonium ‘Orange Fizz’ – scented leaf, Phlomis italic, Sage – purple-leaved (Salvia officinalis purpurea), Salix exigua, Salix vitallina, Sempervivum – named cultivars, Stachys byzantine, Salix ‘Nancy Saunders’, Teucrium chamaedrys, Viburnum rhytidophylum, Wallflowers – various
We look forward to seeing you!
Location: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT
Our favourite seeds!
Our favourite annuals and biennials, herbs and vegetables – plants which we come back to time and time again, which we love for their special colour or variety – and which are good easy performers. Tied together with a piece of raffia, these seed packets make great gifts for k
een gardeners (or keen window-boxers!).
FLOWERS: Ammi majus, Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’, Cleome Helen Campbell, Cornflower Black Ball, Cosmos Sensation Mixed, Erigeron karvinskianus, Eschscholzia californica, Marigold Indian Prince, Nasturtium Jewel Mixed, Nicotiana mutabilis Marshmallow, Nigella damascena, Nigella damascena ‘Miss Jekyll’, Sunflower Earthwalker, Sweet Pea Matucana, Verbena bonariensis, WelshPoppy, Zinnia Envy.
HERBS: Basil Lettuce Leaf, Basil Red Leaf, Dill Mammoth, Parsley.
VEGETABLES: Artichoke Violetto di Chioggia, Beans violette, Chard Rainbow Mixed, Courgette Black Beauty Dark Fog, Dill Mammoth, Habanero Chilli, Hungarian Wax Chilli, Lettuce Freckles, Lettuce Marvel of Four Seasons, Lettuce Red Salad Bowl, Spinach Reddy, Squash Jack Be Little, Squash Turk’s Turban, Squash Winter, Tomato Garden Pearl, Tomato Tumbling Tom.
Contact us to find out which seeds are available contact@gardenhousebrighton.co.uk
Individual seed packets are £2.00 each – or buy six packets for £10.00
Contact us or send a cheque for the correct amount (made out to Bridgette Saunders or Deborah Kalinke) to The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT.
Garden House gift vouchers
What could be more ideal for the garden enthusiasts in your family? Garden House vouchers make great gifts! They are available in £10.00 denominations, or you can purchase a voucher for the full cost of any Garden House course or garden visit.
Contact us or send a cheque for the desired amount (made out to Bridgette Saunders or Deborah Kalinke) to: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT.
Allotment Gardening by Bridgette Saunders
Bridgette Saunders is an experienced horticulturalist, planstwoman and lecturer. She runs courses on allotment gardening from her home in Brighton and teaches at City College, Brighton and Hove, where she enjoys inspiring her students to grow a variety of plants, both edible and ornamental.
Her book Allotment Gardening, published October 2009, deals with all aspects of the allotment ‘experience’. It is beautifully illustrated with photographs taken by Rhoda Nottridge, and by Bridgette herself, in her own vegetable patch and local allotments in and around Sussex and Norfolk.
It covers how to plan and design your allotment, whatever its size and aspect; considering the soil quality; what fruit, vegetables and flowers to plant; how to tackle pests, diseases and predators; and most importantly, what to do when – the seasonal calendar.
Buy the book direct from us, priced £13.50 (pls make cheque out to Bridgette Saunders or Deborah Kalinke, and send to The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT) – or buy from www.amazon.co.uk